Bound in blue cloth with gilt titles to spine, this 2004 hardcover First Edition is VG in VG dustjacket (unclipped). Signed and inscribed to John Leaky by the author. X/210pp with 4 Maps, Introduction, 9 Chapters, Appendices, Notes Bibliography and Index.Condition close to new!

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Title: INTERVENTION IN RUSSIA, 1918-1920: A CAUTIONARY TALE
Publisher: Leo Cooper, Barnsley, UK
Publication Date: 2004
Language: English
ISBN 10: 184415033X
ISBN 13: 9781844150335
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: First Edition
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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The end of the Great War did not bring peace to Russia. A civil war developed between the Bolsheviks and the 'White Russians' who represented the old Czarist order. A 'coalition' of 16 nations including Britain, America and France became involved on numerous fronts in support of the White Russians. The result was defeat and failure for the coalition forces. This little known and ill-fated enterprise was surprisingly costly in political and military terms. Indeed the intervention lead to precisely the opposite result to that intended, yet its lessons have gone untaught.

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Servicemen from 16 countries, including Britain, the US, Japan, and France, took part in the ill-fated military intervention in Russia in 1918-20. Hudson, a former political secretary in the UK's Foreign Office in the 1970s, investigates the causes, course, and outcome of the intervention. He measures the mistakes made by those who ordered the inte

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